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2015

Pepeha

Ko Ngati Tahu te iwi
Ko Adam toku papa
Ko Tania toku mama
Ko Aston taku tuahine
Ko Jacob taku tungane
Ko Heretaunga toku kainga
Ko Riverslea toku kura
Ko Maika taku ingoa
No reira
tena koutou
tena koutou
tena koutou
katoa

My Goals 2015

1. Learn to read books up to Level 5.
2. Learn to write lots of words and stories.
3. Learn to count up to 20 in Maths.

September

Lots to learn and do.

In September we have still been learning and having fun in Room 1.
We enjoy using the ipads for learning new things especially on SkoolBo.
Hemara got a trophy, for the school, from them for getting 10,000 points.
PMP is nearly finished. We have learnt lots of new activities and skills.
We have finished our Inquiry “All About Me,” on ourselves and our whanau
and friends and our healthy bodies. We know lots of things about our Inquiry now.
We got some great results for reading and writing and Maths this term
and have made some excellent progress in those areas.
The best fun was the Hakinakina Cross country. We got 1st (Van) 2nd (Boyden) and 3rd (Hemara)
in the Year 2 boys and 2nd (Hohepa) in the Year 1 Boys. The girls ran well too.
The Duffy Role Model Assembly was great with Rob Mokoraka.
We also got our Duffy books which were fabulous.
Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.


The Hakinakina Cross Country and PMP inside on a wet day.


Dad getting the Father's Day Duffy book. Me learning on the Skoolbo app- reading and maths.

I am learning lots on the ipads.I am good Skoolbo.
I like PMP and running too.
I am reading harder books now at Level 2.
I can write some words and tell my stories too.
(Maika)

I like all the things that the students get involved in.
Was very proud of the tamariki at the Hakinakina sports.
PMP has stopped because of the price.
I am going to hook into some training so that next year I can present
the programme independently.
ipad app learning is going well.
I introduce an app and then let the students try it out themselves.
Often they can come back 15 minutes later and show me something that I did not know.
Maika is at Level 2 in Reading now. He is making slow and steady progress.
Mum and Dad listening to him read at home.I have applied to get RTLB help for Maika with his learning.
Maika can write some words now and is at Stage 1 Maths.(Mrs B)

July/August

Visitors and learning

July and August have been great months for learning and fun in Room 1.
We have been learning lots with our buddies and enjoying using the ipads
for learning new things as well as fun activities like PMP.
We had a Sports day with the Hastings City Council and leaders came such as
Henare OKeefe (Duffy Books)and Paddy Stafford (Tamatea Rugby Club) as well as
a policewoman and other helpers. They cooked us a sausage sizzle for lunch
and we played lots of great games too. Paddy also donated some Rugby balls for us to use.
We have been involved in Nga Toi. We loved making our wheku masks. They look cool and scary.
We have been having a focus for Inquiry on ourselves and
our whanau and friends and our healthy bodies this term.
Hearty from the Heart foundation came to visit our school and ran around the track with the children.
We were lucky as Mrs Donaldson and her daughter Michelle
raised money for new sports equipment for the Junior school. We love all the new gear.
We are becoming amazing at reading and writing and Maths this term
and have made some great progress in that area.
Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.



I like learning with my buddies.


Sports and PMP are fun.


Hearty ran with us. I liked making masks.

I liked the Sports day and making masks.
Hearty talked about good food.
I like PMP and learning with my buddy.
(Maika)

We had lots of fun activities again in July and August.
I spent these months supporting the children in all the activities
such as sports days and Hearty's visit.
We had lots of fun making wheku masks. They looked amazing.
The children wrote stories about them and put them up on the wall.
The tamariki are learning a lot on the ipads to help their progress in reading, writing and Maths.
(Mrs Bennett)

June

Lots of fun connections and activities.

June was another amazing month in Room 1 (Miharo)
We watched the Bike container being shifted by a huge crane.
We are going to put Art (Nga Toi) all over it and make it a feature of our school.
We were involved in the Preschool opening.
Room 1 helped make pizzas for the kai and sung waiata after the speeches.
We had the Duffy Theatre visit and got our Duffy books.
We learnt Te Reo Kori with Sport HB and went in a school Te Reo Kori tournament.
We went in a Hakinakina Rippa Rugby tournament with other schools. We won lots of games.
We Skyped Mr Twinn at his Dad’s place in Scotland.
We all asked him questions and showed him pictures. He sent us photos too.
It was 10.30pm at night over there and 9.30am in the morning in NZ.
June was another awesome month in Room 1, Miharo.


At the Preschool Opening.We sang Tutira Mai. The Duffy Theatre was cool.


I liked the Te Reo Kori. We won lots of games in Rippa Rugby.


We skyped Mr Twinn in Scotland.

I liked the Duffy Theatre.It was cool.I got my new Duffy book.
We were good at Rippa Rugby . We won most of the games.
I ran fast and I got the ball.
I liked doing the string games.
The best thing was Skyping Mr Twinn.We showed him our pictures.
(Maika)

We had lots of fun activities this month.I spent the month supporting the children in all the activities
and helping organise many of them such as kai for the preschool opening(Our class made pizzas),
The Duffy Theatre,The Hakinakina Rippa Rugby between 4 other schools and Skyping Mr Twinn
(our ex Student Teacher) in Scotland
(Mrs Bennett)

May

May saw Mr Twinn, Student Teacher and Matua Torp as part of Room 1.
We had lots of adventures and learning. We were involved in lots of fun things.
We shared some of our experiences through ,Write about it and Book Creator ipad apps.
Some of those connections, which is what our Inquiry is about this term,
were our trip to Mr McFarlane’s farm where we saw sheep, cows ,bulls and a helicopter.
Seeing Whaea Anne and Harold the giraffe in the Life Education truck taught us
about not bullying and being nice to others.
We had an artist Matua Brandon Blair who came to school to talk about that and get us to draw posters too.
We learnt about and practised using our WITS (Walk away, Ignore, Tell someone eg a teacher
and make a Statement eg ‘Stop it ,I don’t like it.”) from Mrs Bennett.
Some students made connections with Matua Manu and did Nga Toi, making kowhaiwhai patterns on rocks.
We made other connections with the Preschool, Mrs Donaldson, the librarian, our whanau,
Mr Twinn, Matua Torp, our buddies from other classes eg Buddy reading and sharing in oral language in R1,
and Greg Murphy a formula 1 racing car driver (Whaea Monique-student teacher in R2s husband),
who came to school to speak to us and show us all his racing gear. Hohepa tried on his $5,000 helmet.
We also had a school party to say goodbye to Mr Twinn
and Whaea Monique who had been student teachers at our school for 7 weeks.
It was sad to see them go.We hope they come back and visit us.
One of our biggest connections was using Skype. We connected to Mr Twinn’s Dad in Scotland.
It was 10.30pm at night over there and 9.30am in the morning in NZ.
He showed us the model planes that he flies and that we had seen on videos on youtube.
He also showed us a picture of Mr Twinn as a little boy.
We showed him the planes that we had made and sung him our new Riverslea song and Tutira Mai Nga Iwi.
We liked it when the circus came to visit us too. The performers could do all sorts of tricks.
May was an awesome month in Room 1, Miharo.

Farm visit, ipads and connections

Making connections with Mr MacFarlane at the farm.


Write about it app on the ipad with Lukus


Book Creator with Van about the Farm and Skatepark


In the Life Education truck with Whaea Anne learning about being nice to others
and not bullying and being healthy.



Watching the circus at our school. Buddy reading with Kauri.


Showing our planes to Mr Twinn's Dad on Skype.

I liked the farm and the skatepark.
I am learning to count and know some alphabet.
I am learning colours and write numbers.
I liked making planes and finger puppets too.
(Maika)

Maika is still very shy.
He will talk one to one to me but is reluctant in a group situation.
Maika is beginning to copy most of his words now. He can orally dictate a story to me.
He is also starting to point 1 to 1 to words in reading.
He can count up to 5.
Maika goes to Mrs Donaldson for alphabet letter name and sound reinforcement 4 times a week.
He works with me in a group of 3 in reading.
He also works with me in Maths and storywriting.
He has made a little progress but is working at below National Standards.
Maika has recently been diagnosed with severe glue ear
in both ears and is awaiting grommets( 6 months waiting list).
(Mrs B)

April

We have started studying Matariki this term and our focus is on Connections.
We are going to have lots of fun making connections everywhere.
Next week we are going to a farm where Mr Twinn, the student teacher in R1 used to work.
We will make connections with the Farmer Mr McFarlane and the animals.
We have made connections already with the Riverslea Preschool
and with Toni Ben and Graham who come to help us do PMP activities for fitness and coordination.
We also made connections with Wendy and Bridget from the Hastings council.
We picked up Litter around our school.
It was cool meeting Jocelyn Cowan who gave our school a certificate for being Sunsmart.
We also had Whaea Korina our Health Nurse talking about Healthy Foods at Assembly.
We will make lots of other connections this term.
We know what reading levels we are at and have been doing Geometry and Time in Maths.
We know o’clock and half past.
We are all improving in our reading.
We are learning to count and do addition in Maths now.
We are still learning to write FABULOUS stories.
We liked Easter as we made Easter eggs and had lots of chocolate.
We also made a Comic Life about our Geometry shapes that we found outside around the school
and learnt how to make a Puppet Pal presentation on the ipads.
Matua Torp is now working in our class too helping all the tamariki.
(Mrs B)

I liked making Easter eggs.
I painted mine.
I won the chocolate Easter Bunny from the R1 prize box.
I am getting better at reading.
I am going to be on Level 2 soon.
I want to write my own words in my stories.
My goal is to learn to read and know my alphabet.
I want to know my colours and count too.
I liked balancing on the shapes in PMP
I liked finding different shapes in the playground with Lukus.
(Maika)

I want to further extend Maika in reading and especially help him learn
basic vocabulary when reading stories.
I also want to help Maika attempt to write his own words when writing stories.
He needs to develop the self confidence to "give this a go."
At the moment he only tries to copy some letters.
Next we will keep practising his counting in Mathematics.
He also needs help reinforcing colour names.
(Mrs B)

Maths, PMP,Connections.

Maika getting a certificate at T1 Prizegiving Assembly, Maika making an Easter egg.
for learning some of his alphabet.


Maika and Lukus making a Comic Life on shapes they found outside the classroom. Balancing at PMP.

Picking up Litter in the school with Mrs Bennett and Whaea Wendy form the Council.

March

We have had another busy but fun month in March , with lots of different things happening.
We went to the Hakinakina swimming sports at the Aquatic centre on a bus.
We swam with Whare Tapere, Bridge Pa and Mangateretere.
We had fun and loved all the games and free swim.
In the Seniors Exzodia and Mohi-Tarau got lots of certificates.
We got some new lego in the class and had lots of fun building all sorts of things.
We also went on a class trip as we are studying Turangawaewae.
We went to the Transfer Station at Flaxmere. We looked at all the Recycling and the rubbish.
We helped Mrs Versey sort out some recycling and put them in the right bins.
We saw all the rubbish and know what happens to it now.
Afterwards we went to the Hastings skatepark and playground.
We enjoyed it there going up and down all the ramps. We brought our scooters and had lunch there too.
Mrs Versey also came to school and showed us how to make recycled paper. It came out grey.
We also had Mr Mac and Doug the Digger come to Riverslea again
for another Role Model Assembly for Duffy.We got our Duffy books and saw Mr Macs big truck.
We had the Police, Firemen and Ambulance people come and visit us too. That was really cool.
(Mrs B & R1)

I liked the Transfer Station.I liked the trucks.
We made paper in class.
I like Mr Mac's truck.
I'm good on my scooter.
I did the swimming too. (Maika)

Recycling, Swimming and Learning

I liked the swimming. I made a lego truck.

I recycled plastic and paper. I'm fast on my scooter.

I liked the fire engine and Mr Mac's truck.

February

What a busy but fun start to the school year Room 1 has had.
We have had fun improving our skills on the bike track.
That is a goal of many in the class.
We have had lots of testing to see what progress we have made and where to next.
We have set our 3 goals and are trying to achieve them.
We are studying Turangawaewae and focussing on our environment.
Room 1, Miharo, are looking at Recycling.
We know what reading levels we are at and can now do graphs in Maths.
We are learning to count and do addition in Maths now.
We are also learning to write FABULOUS stories.
Below are pictures of the bike track and / or us on ipads learning Literacy and Numeracy on our new app SkoolBo.
Also a picture of the graphs that we can do and a story that we each wrote.
Miharo is cool.
Miharo is awesome. (Mrs B)

I am good at riding on the bike track.
I like SkoolBo on the ipad and Hungry Fish.
I am getting a bit faster at running.
I am learning to copy some words in my stories.
I am at Level 1 in Reading.
I am learning to count in Maths. (Maika)

Next goal for Maika is to copy all of the words he dictates in story writing.
Maika is counting up to 10 most times. He needs to extend this to reach his goal of 20 in Maths.
With lots of positive reinforcement and praise and modelling he will improve in those areas.
He is making slow but steady progress and enjoys using the ipads to learn.
He is very quiet and reluctant to talk to others.
He will talk to me in a 1 to 1 situation. I need to help build up his confidence
and oral language skills so that he will talk to others too.
( Mrs B)


Maika using SkoolBo app to learn Literacy and Maths. Maika with his buddy in reading.


Maika is confident on the Pump Track on a bike.

Maika is tracing over the stories that he dictates. He can use imagination in his stories.
Maika's animal bar graph in Maths.